L.A. Woman by The Doors

L.A. Woman

The Doors

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L.A. Woman is the sixth studio album by the American rock band the Doors, released on April 19, 1971, by Elektra Records. It is the last to feature lead singer Jim Morrison during his lifetime due to his death three months after the album's release, though he would posthumously appear on the 1978 album An American Prayer. Even more so than its predecessors, the album is heavily influenced by blues. It was recorded without record producer Paul A. Rothchild after he fell out with the group over the perceived lack of quality of their studio performances. Subsequently, the band co-produced the album with longtime sound engineer Bruce Botnick. "Love Her Madly" was released as a single in March 1971, preceding the album's release, and reached the Top 20 in the Billboard Hot 100. Upon release, the album peaked at number nine on the Billboard 200 and reached number 28 on the UK Albums Charts. The track "Riders on the Storm" also achieved chart success. Critics including Richie Unterberger and David Quantick have called L.A. Woman one of the Doors' best albums, citing Morrison's vocal performance and the band's stripped-down return to their blues rock roots.

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Jan 17 2021 Author
3
You can classify Doors tunes into 3 categories; the hits, average blues tunes and drug addled drek.
Feb 16 2021 Author
5
who doesn't just love to listen to the Doors? I sure do, and fuck anybody that doesn't.
Feb 01 2021 Author
5
Stripped of any lingering psychedelic pretense or lounge act crooner aspirations, L.A. Woman captures a rock band embracing their roots and delivers. This is a blues album, no way around it. The band is hitting on all cylinders and Jim's voice has matured, either through whiskey and cigarettes, or age, into a convincingly legitimate bluesman. The song writing is tip top. The performances are inspired. The production is warm and accessible. L.A. Woman hints at the band's evolutionary direction that could have been. I fucking love this album.
Mar 29 2021 Author
5
So many great songs on this one. All timers. This is a legendary album. Hyacinth House and L'america are weird, underrated gems
Jan 20 2021 Author
1
Ummmm... This sounds like they just stole a bunch of black music.
Oct 23 2020 Author
5
Classic album, classic singles, defines an era of rock and roll, ends with riders on the storm, what's not to like?
Aug 04 2021 Author
3
A few bangers on this one, but Weird Al did it better.
Jul 24 2023 Author
5
"If they say I never loved you You know they are a liar"
Nov 06 2020 Author
5
✌️
Apr 12 2022 Author
1
This band really doesn't do it for me. Can't for the life of me figure it out.
Jan 26 2021 Author
5
GREAT album. Probably my favorite Doors album. Highlights: -Love Her Madly -LA Woman -Riders on the Storm
Jul 30 2022 Author
3
The wheels are falling off the Morrison Express and the Doors are trying their damndest to keep it on the tracks - they’re playing tighter than ever before on this record. The result is a dichotomy of a hyper-focused, tight band playing around a guy who is clearly inebriated, incoherent and often shouting. Shout out to Tom Scharpling (The Best Show) for pointing out how distant Morrison’s vocals sound in Love Her Madly, as though he was feet away from the mic when it was recorded. I will never be able to listen to this song again without the image of Jim Morrison laying down the vocals while on toilet. We all know the hits, and they’re very good, even if you include Jim Morrison singing Love Her Madly on the toilet - I actually think it’s one of the Door’s best songs. LA Woman and Riders on the Storm are fantastic and deserve their status as classic rock staples. Unfortunately, a lot of this record just isn’t very memorable. If you enjoy blues/boogie-rock you’ll probably enjoy it, but for me, that gets boring fast. L’America halts any momentum and goodwill the band had from LA Woman. If the intent of that song is to mimic the descent into madness… well, congratulations, it made feel me feel like I was losing my mind. Hyacinth House is middling, but slightly redeems itself with some fan service in the form of a reference to The End. Apparently, this was actually the song with the bathroom recorded vocals - “I see the bathroom is clear”. Forgive my ignorance of Jim Morrison’s toilet singing habits. Earlier this week, I was given Nirvana’s In Utero to listen to by this fine website and my feelings on that album are similar to this one. If this wasn’t the final release from a beloved musician, would it be remembered as fondly as it is now? My guess in both cases is…probably not. They’re both solid albums, but neither reach the level of “all time greats”.
Feb 01 2021 Author
5
Love it. Never listened to the whole thing before. Hyacinth House is a new fav. Makes me want to watch the movie.
Jan 14 2021 Author
5
Amazing album
Jan 15 2021 Author
5
A very very good album, I liked it a lot
Feb 02 2021 Author
4
1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die day 19, and boy, I have a doozy of an album for you today! The Doors released their sixth, and final studio album, L.A. Woman in 1971. The Doors is a band that probably doesn’t need an introduction, but being that this album is now fifty years old, I will preface with a brief bit of their history. The Doors were the epitome of the sixties counter culture, wild, free and controversial. Vocalist Jim Morrison had a persona larger than life, yet was a very mysterious person. Morrison was a supremely intelligent man and used the mystique that surrounded The Doors to great advantage. While being a magnificent showman, Morrison would often show up to recording sessions and performances drunk and wild, and would sometimes incite riots in the crowd. The Doors frontman would face many criminal charges stemming from his risky antics, including indecency, public obscenity, lewd and lascivious behavior, indecent exposure, public profanity and public drunkenness. Morrison remains the first and only musician to be arrested on stage during a performance. It’s an understatement to say that Jim Morrison had a disdain for authority and was not one to conform to anyones laws, rules or social standards other than his own. The Lizard King joined the 27 Club in 1971, when he died in Paris, France at the age of 27, Joining other icons such as Janis Joplin and Jimi Hendrix, and was quoted by some as saying he would be number 3 in this tragic “club”. His death remains surrounded in mystery fifty years later. Morrison never shied away from the idea of death in his music either. Is being subconsciously suicidal a thing? I can’t help but to feel like doom was in the playbook for this artistically genius/madman. Now, onto the music. The Doors is a band that cannot be confined to any type of genre. While L.A. Woman is widely considered a Rock album, its more Rhythm & Blues than anything. There is some serious tickling of the ivory going down on this record. Keyboardist and co-founder of The Doors, Ray Manzarek shines on every track.
Mar 19 2024 Author
3
I’ve deliberately not read up on Riders on the Storm, which I have always enjoyed, as I prefer to believe that the thunder and rains sounds on top of it we’re devised by a drunkenly belligerent Morrison yelling I want a fuckin storm on this assholes and just wrecking the studio until they were put in. Meeker artists like Hendrix or The Beatles might’ve resorted to some inventive instrumental sound or pattern to reference the subject matter, but such timid subterfuge was not happening on Jim’s watch. This is theThe Doors album that I think is pretty good.
Oct 08 2023 Author
3
The hits soar; the rest is a bit of a bore.
May 04 2021 Author
3
What a strange collection. It has some of my all-tome favorites from the Doors, as well as some of the most boring stuff they ever wrote. What a conundrum.
Jan 29 2022 Author
2
"The Changeling" is Funky Town. Bluesy, chill record, sometimes adding some tempo. Not the biggest fan, but of course "Riders on the Storm" is great. The most of it bores me to death though. 2
Jul 12 2025 Author
5
i'm unsure if an album has ever clicked so hard for me halfway through my first listen, to go from being underwhelmed and somewhat disappointed to thoroughly engaged and on the same wavelength. a very productive listen; i feel as though i've Unlocked something. the Doors are a band i've been tentatively interested in for a while now, but whose discography i've yet to explore. they're actually quite a bit divisive in my "scene," as it were—my scene of younger queer people autistic about music, i mean. they've become something of an easy target. i couldn't really tell you why that is—something about the cia, something about "boomers"—i tune a lot of it out. i don't really think it's Personal; it's just a product of an ever-changing culture, different political priorities, and generational gaps. it happens. that kind of stuff never bothered me, though, and what little i knew of the Doors had me intrigued: a highly eccentric and dramatic train wreck, a heady artist type full-on hollering beat poetry over a blues organ… that just seemed so obviously like my thing. i'd of course heard light my fire and break on through, they're impossible tracks to miss, staples of rock radio and soundtracks, but this marks my first real experience with their music. like all good stories, i've started at the end. gritty, ragged, and quite burnt out. the psychedelic 60s were over. we forget, really, how quickly the hippie movement came and went. i mean, this is a band who were, in a very real way, only active for five years. Grateful Dead and Jefferson Airplane would form in '65, and just four years later we'd see woodstock. we think of the woodstock festival as the beating heart of the movement, but really, in a lot of ways, it was the death throe. the same year, the hells angels would kill Meredith Hunter at altamont free. the manson family would murder Sharon Tate and several others, and a highly publicized court case ensues that didn't do much for the hippies' already sour reputation in the mainstream. this had all already happened by the time l.a. woman had come out. the writing was on the wall. the scene was dying. and you can hear it! it sounds exhausted. i think listening to this thing extremely hung over was a nice bit of tonal serendipity, though it's the kind of thing that usually appeals to me anyways. thankfully, this album isn't actually like, a massive bummer. it's tired, yes, and it's dark, but still fiery and intense. lots of inspired creative decisions. the building intensity towards the end of the sprawling title track in particular strikes me as the core of the record. electric. i was super into it. real head trip.
Feb 15 2025 Author
5
ONE OF MY FAVOURITE'S OF ALL TIME!!!!!!!!!!!!
Feb 20 2024 Author
5
So I’ve always been a big Doors fan, going back to their self-titled debut album – which I’m sure will be on the 1,001… Most of my favorite songs are scattered across their catalog, though some albums ae more memorable than others – and “LA Woman” is definitely one of those… “Morrison Hotel” – the album that preceded “LA Woman”, was the bands weakest effort to that point, and with the exception of the songs “Roadhouse Blues” & “Peace Frog” – the rest of it was pretty lame when compared to what came before it… That’s probably why it was such a surprise that “LA Woman” followed, with truly some of the finest work of their career… Side 1 top-to-bottom is absolutely incredible! “The Changeling” – which leads off the album, is definitely the weakest effort on Side 1 – but still a solid song… Clearly the hits “Love Her Madly” & “LA Woman” are the hallmarks of the first side, but “Been Down So Long” & “Car Hiss By My Window” are exceptionally well done… There was a Doors cover band that used to play in Cleveland when I was in college called “Moonlight Drive” – and they always played “Been Down So Long”, and hearing it live really brought it to life – as I’m sure it did whenever The Doors played it – though I never got to see them… Side 2 is less stellar top-to-bottom, but the closing tracks “The WASP” & “Riders On The Storm” are so creative and brilliant, that they help kick the album’s status to another level… “Crawling King Snake” is fine – sort of the equivalent to Side 1’s “The Changeling” – so solid, but nothing amazing… “L’America” really seems out of place, and I checked a little further on Wiki, and that may be because it was supposed to be included on a movie soundtrack – so that probably explains it, and “Hyacinth House” was just there for me… So on balance for me, 6 of the 10 tracks were absolutely outstanding, with 2 additional solid ones – and 2 leftovers, and compared to the VAST majority of albums, that is truly an amazing accomplishment… Absolute 5 in my book – no doubt about it…
Nov 24 2023 Author
5
I had money, and I had none But I never been so broke that I couldn't leave town
May 20 2022 Author
5
From the first to the last note, this is the Doors operating at their very best. Very heavy into the blues, the atmosphere here just feels like you're sitting in some smoky dive bar drinking scotch with the band playing right beside you. I especially love the use of the organ throughout, and the guitar tones are just incredible. This album is packed so tightly with great songs I find it hard to believe this is not a compilation, there is not a single piece of filler here. To me this really cements the Doors as one of the greatest rock bands of all time. Fav tracks: Been Down So Long, Cars Hiss By My Window, Hyacinth House, Riders On The Storm
Sep 10 2021 Author
5
-Absolute banger album -Jim Morrison's vocals are great, and Ray Manzarek shreds the keyboard -"The Changeling," "Love Her Madly," "Been down so Long," "L.A. Woman," "The WASP (Texas Radio and the Big Beat)," and "Riders on the Storm" are all classics -Personally my favorite is "Been down so Long," Morrison's vocals are super powerful
Aug 01 2021 Author
5
Just brilliant from start to finish. The band just sound so tight throughout and you can hear how Morrison’s voice had changed. It’s fair to say that maybe five or six of these songs are up there among the best of their kind but that it also contains two or three absolute bonafide classics, namely LA Woman and Riders. The final track is up there as one of my favorite songs ever… to think that Morrison whispering the song title at the end was the last thing he ever put on record before he died. I won’t leave it so long next time before listening to this album again ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
May 13 2025 Author
4
The Doors are one of those bands I wish I could hear without the context of their present-day influence. Even just with the first track on this album, it evoked modern bands that strive for this sound as their identity (looking at you Black Keys). But that also means that they did it well enough for that influence to last all these decades later. Obviously the Doors weren't the only artists making bluesy rock music in this way, but their sound is more timeless than some other efforts from that era. Conversely, though, it's also interesting to think about the time that has passed since this album (released 1971) to today (50+ years later), and that at the time it came out, it was already decades after the blues music that influenced it. Songs like Cars Hiss By My Window really drive you back to those earlier eras, while, like I said above, the more modern sounding blues rock influence can come from other tracks. To be clear, I am a blues rock fan. I've never really loved the Doors or listened to them outside of their more famous songs, but this album was a perfect introduction to their full-length efforts for me. It hit the right feel of blues, but also rocked. It had variety between slower songs and some with more pep. I don't consider Morrison to have otherworldly vocal talent, but he still was able to do some impressive things with his voice here. It's one of those situations where the artist fits the song and gives it exactly what it seems to need. I'm not sure another voice would've brought the songs to life as well. The lyrics weren't necessarily amazing, but you could feel what he was singing with them. I mean, who can't appreciate the emotion he put behind "I've been down so goddamn long, that it looks like up to me" in an angry growl. He's gritty, he's angry, he's sad, he's expressive, he's contemplative; he wants you to feel what he feels as he's singing. I definitely like that aspect to a singer rather than the more pop/accessible method that makes things more generic. I also enjoyed the music. It pulled off a good bluesy rock sound. Guitar-driven tracks will almost always pique my interest, and this album had a lot of that. I felt there was a balance to the instrumental focus. It had plenty of guitar, but also a lot of keys. Solid drums and bass holding it down. There were times when it seemed like maybe they could've done more, but the songs didn't feel lacking even though they didn't. They switched it up a bit for Riders on the Storm, going with a jazzy feel, which was a nice change at the end. For the negative, some of the songs just weren't as good as others. I wanted to like L'America and Hyacinth House, but didn't get that much from them (especially compared to the rest of the tracks). Their lyrics were the weakest of the album to me. I felt like they brought down some of the following tracks too, since they all felt more similar than some of the vibes on the first half. To add to that, I do think the album would've benefitted from some more variation in style. As much as I loved the sound, the last half really could use something to mix it up. That eventually happened with Riders, but it was a bit late at that point. To me, this was a really solid album with good blues rock roots and interesting vocal work. It was underwhelming in parts, and probably a little too one-note to be considered an all-time great. Still, a very good one. Overall: 4/5
Jan 28 2025 Author
4
Now THIS is some psychedelic blues-esque rock for yo ass!! I mean I’m still coming down from the journey they took me on. Pencil me in as Doors fan fr
Nov 03 2024 Author
4
L.A. Woman I’ve never really given the Doors albums a proper listen. Not sure why as I really like them. I probably have listened to this one more than any of their others though, but I’m not really that familiar with it. Bold strategy to open with Bag it Up by Geri Halliwell. But each to their own. In reality it's a great little blues rock groove, with those great keyboard touches and augmentations you’d expect from Manzarek. Love Her Madly is obviously a classic bit of 60s pop, but the evenness of the album does reveal itself with Been Down So Long, one of a few vaguely aimless blues-jazz jams with some shouty Morrison on top. Cars Hiss by My Window is brighter, but still feels a little rudderless, although some of the guitar is soulfully sweet. L.A. Woman though is superb, probably my favourite Doors song, the rhythm, the organ, the groove, the hot late night seediness. Fantastic track. His voice on L’America is great and it’s angularity before dipping into some classic West Coast sunshine melody before heading back into a sinister mood is pleasingly off beat and odd in a great way. Hyacinth House really is very lovely. If you are a Doors fan I presume this is pretty well known, but for me it's a bit of an overlooked gem, a great atmosphere and some excellent drumming. I wasn’t keen on Crawling King Snake on the first listen, but I really liked it on the 2nd and 3rd listen - the presence of a real bassist is great, and it’s menacing groove is superbly played. A cut above the other bluesy stuff on here. Similarly I liked The WASP more on repeated listens, even if the musical/organ breakdowns feel a bit cheesy and overall it’s not one of the stronger tracks. And then of course the excellent and trippy Riders on the Storm, a great bit of 60s bluesy psychedelia. Krieger really shines with his reverby licks. Despite some unevenness, the highs of The Changeling, Love Her Madly, LA Woman, Hyacinth House and Riders on the Storm, and their skill as musicians make it a cut above, and lands it as an easy 4. 🚪🚪🚪🚪 Playlist submission: L.A. Woman
Mar 19 2024 Author
4
Is every Doors album on here? I guess I'll finally have to force myself through "The Soft Parade".. anyway - this ones good, blues-heavy, with 4-5 excellent numbers and some decent filler. I used to try to play "Riders On The Storm" on my Casio keyboard, although the descending scale in the solo was too difficult (blame the mini keys). I love the title track, it always seems on the verge of falling over but makes it through to the end with panache, kind-of preceding Pavement in spirit. Whoa, come on!
Mar 29 2021 Author
4
Goddamn Val Kilmer can sing (kidding). His voice sounds pretty different to later albums, loved how bluesy it is and how Riders on the Storm reminds me of Need For Speed Underground 2.
Feb 20 2021 Author
4
Great bluesy, rock album. Uses the organ well.
Feb 24 2025 Author
3
to be honest, I grew out of this music when I was a 17 year old girl. something many men have not been able to accomplish yet. it’s good! just doesn’t serve me anymore. s
Jul 31 2025 Author
5
Just cool Guitars rip through. Love when the keys join in Dark and poetic
Feb 14 2025 Author
5
big old 5 for Jim and the gang - little bit of bluesy filler on there, but Riders on the Storm has that delicate menace and command of space that not a lot else has ever come close to sounding like since
Jul 24 2023 Author
5
Perfect album, great harmony. It's so good that I don't know what more should I say. Timeless classic
Nov 15 2021 Author
5
Possibly the Doors finest and most coherent album. LA Woman is very blues driven and features some of Ray Manzarek’s best work on keys. The band as a whole plays very well on this album and Jim Morrison’s vocal delivery is energetic as always.
Jun 17 2021 Author
5
Fav album. Ever. I LOOOOVE THE DOORS
Apr 16 2021 Author
5
Not a ton to dislike about The Doors. Except maybe for some Jim Morrison silliness. Sort of a link between classic southern country blues and glam/new wave pop rock. Clearly California. I love this album.
Apr 21 2021 Author
5
Loved it, already loved it.
Jan 20 2021 Author
5
Bomb
Jan 19 2021 Author
5
Smooootthhh vibeeee
Jan 20 2021 Author
5
superb
Jan 19 2021 Author
5
Great
Mar 16 2021 Author
5
Pretty excellent
Jan 22 2021 Author
5
LA Woman og Riders on the storm - elsk
Oct 20 2025 Author
4
Bluesy and smooth and dark. I can imagine stumbling into a dim pub at 11:15pm and hearing these guys and sipping a stout while nodding my head like yeahhhh I think these guys could be really big one day. And then my jaw would hit the floor during "Riders on the Storm" because hotdam that track slaps.
Aug 29 2025 Author
4
A greater focus on blues than their earlier albums. Some great tracks, but the tendency to go a bit too long. Quite good. 4/5
Aug 27 2025 Author
4
His brain is squirming like a toad.
Mar 11 2025 Author
4
джим морисон, ты ебанутый? а ниче тот факт что твоя ебанина делала дорз пиздатой группой
Jan 29 2025 Author
4
good classsic poetic rock
Sep 02 2024 Author
4
Groovy
Aug 27 2025 Author
3
a buffalo sings
May 13 2025 Author
3
When I think about The Doors the first thing I remember is this electric keyboard.
Feb 27 2025 Author
3
Annoyingly good. Oh it hums You want them to not deliver. That somehow they're not better than the sum of their parts. That Ray Manzarek can't hold down a melody and a driving bass line on that organ. That Robby Krieger isn't the bastard child of Bryan Maclean and Brian Jones and that Jim Morrison is actually just a drunken bar crooner. But it swings, it grooves, and it rocks.
Feb 24 2025 Author
3
God, I totally don't know what to do with the Doors... the hip consensus seems to be to sneer at the Doors, but I have to admit that all three Doors albums I have reviewed for this project (S/T, Morrison Hotel, and now LA Woman) have all been kinda fun to listen to. Morrison is a pretentious prat and not nearly as deep as he pretends, although he certainly knew how to strut around in leather kecks convincingly. By this, unknowingly the end of their recording career, the band have grown beyond their glorified lounge act, into a confident and reasonably muscular bar band. The addition of Elvis Presley's bassist Jerry Scheff and rhythm guitarist Marc Benno certainly help with the heft and groove. Scheff in particular helped sit the band in the pocket and counteracted Manzarek's tendency to rush. I like the relatively unadorned recording with minimal overdubs (although sometimes I wish the vocals had been recorded better -- you can hear the weird room ambience on many tracks, such as Love Her Madly. And Morrison has a tendency to yell in his attempts at a blues growl). This album leans heavily on the blues tropes and riffs, which make it generally listenable (better than the cod-classical aspirations of Hyacinth House, for example). But I do worry about appropriation. Led Zeppelin are the poster children for ripping off blues artists, but I can hear direct lifts of Jimmy Reed and Lowell Fulsome here, plus general blue slicks and riffs, in addition to the cover of John Lee Hooker's Crawlin' King Snake. But trying to work within a blues genre reigns in the worst of Morrison's literary pretentions (although we still have to suffer through L'America) I really want to hate the Doors, but this album is kinda fun if you don't expect too much, just regard it as a tight band pumping out some tight blues boogie. I can forgive the band's pretentiousness for this record. 3.5 stars
Jan 22 2025 Author
3
The Changeling - good, interesting, textured Love Her Madly - again, interesting, and I like how the various instruments come up in the mix Been Down So Long - decent 12-bar blues, Jack White solo Cars Hiss By My Window - worse 12-bar blues why is this here??? L.A. Woman - yeah too long but I like it L'America - moody, I like it Hyacinth House - tonally interesting, moody, lyrics are dorky Crawling King Snake - lyrically boring, otherwise nifty 12-bar song The WASP (Texas Radio and the Big Beat) - most poetic lyrically, I like it Riders on the Storm - it's good, interesting narrative, I like the rain Hammond organ is bangin' but I just love an organ Bassist and drummer are locked in Vocals are - mixed - sometimes it works and sometimes less so Guitar good - lots of stuff I see in e.g. The White Stripes
Sep 25 2023 Author
3
Pretty solid first half but goes downhill at L'America. Saved by Riders on the Storm at the end.
May 29 2021 Author
3
Bluesier than I like my rock, but having heard many The Doors songs before I actually enjoyed this more than I thought I would.
Mar 16 2021 Author
3
I'm always torn on the doors. They have some great songs, good riffs and vocals sometimes, and other times their songs just drag on for seven minutes going nowhere, with endless keyboard solos. This is a 48 minute album but it has enough material for a killer 20 minute ep.
Oct 14 2024 Author
1
Feel a bit bad in rating this so low since I do know how influential the doors are (and I can see the stems of that influence in here). But good god this is one of the most middling and annoying records I’ve listened to. No Jim Morrison I do not think that you wailing the word ‘woman’ in various afflictions counts as a good song structure!
Nov 29 2025 Author
5
J'ai adoré dans le mood tout du long, mais je sais pas si je suis influencé par le fait que c'est les doors. Après une longue réflexion je me suis dit que j'allais carrément réécouter l'album, d'où la note finale
Nov 27 2025 Author
5
This is right in my preference. Creatively fantastic and probably even better than their debut, which is not an opinion I thought I'd have. Really excellent and definitely the cream of the crop of 70s music and that is extremely high praise.
Nov 24 2025 Author
5
One late summer night in the early 90s I put a TV on a stand at the end of my bed. From under the bed I pulled a small box with a ceramic pipe and baggie of herb. I loaded the bowl and pushed play on the VCR. The opening scene of Oliver Stone’s movie shows a young kid driving past the wreck of a Native American Chief whose death becomes a seminal moment for the man. I sparked the lighter and pulled a draw of fire through the pipe. As the car pulls away from the accident the camera sweeps away from the road high above the desert with the piano rain drops falling from the classic song Riders on the Storm. I blew the cloud of smoke over the tv screen as the title of the movie THE DOORS descended from the sky into the sand. This album is a transport to the days between innocent and indulgence.
Nov 23 2025 Author
5
I always loved the way the Doors stood out from the hippie music of the sixties with a bluesier sound, more of a rock edge. As much as Morrison wads the face of the band, Manzarek’s keyboard really shapes their sound. The feel of songs like Riders on the Storm and Changeling rely heavily on what he came up with. Also, Krieger’s guitar work is under appreciated, although I think to a lesser degree than the keys.
Nov 22 2025 Author
5
I fuckin love the doors. Get drunk and just spout these lyrics it really makes you feel like you’re Jim on a bender just making some amazing jams
Nov 22 2025 Author
5
Sounds like it could have come out more recently than it did
Nov 21 2025 Author
5
I think this was the tape in Ari's car
Nov 20 2025 Author
5
Fantastic finale for an iconic frontman.
Nov 18 2025 Author
5
Not sure how you could hate this album. The songs are legendary and fun, some of you people are too serious!
Nov 15 2025 Author
5
Very enjoyable listen. I love The Doors.
Nov 11 2025 Author
5
Solid quick listen
Nov 11 2025 Author
5
5 stars, get good.
Nov 11 2025 Author
5
Maybe the best album from The Doors, solid listen throughout, with some absolute masterpieces as L.A. Woman and Riders on the Storm. Too bad Jim Morrison died for this album.
Nov 11 2025 Author
5
Excelente recordar este disco y descubrir cosas nuevas. Tienen unas guitarras souleras que no las tenía. Y ese teclado característico. Recomiendo escuchar las que son como las sesiones de grabación porque tienen mas sorpresas y es mas crudo el sonido
Nov 10 2025 Author
5
Brilliant
Nov 10 2025 Author
5
love
Nov 10 2025 Author
5
Outrageously good
Nov 09 2025 Author
5
An old fave
Nov 09 2025 Author
5
Riesen Ding!
Nov 08 2025 Author
5
Classic.
Nov 05 2025 Author
5
4.7/5 Ok so out of 1000+ albums, i've somehow got two in a row that i've already listened to. Kinda funny. The doors are awesome though.
Nov 01 2025 Author
5
The fact that the album closet is what it is, this album fuckin rules. L’America also has always been a fave of mine.
Nov 01 2025 Author
5
Yeah LA Woman is a low 5 for me (a 9/10), L’America doesn’t work for me, every other song is either great or fantastic for me
Oct 31 2025 Author
5
Pure rock 'n' roll magic. Jim Morrison's voice has that dark charm while the band's sound is looser- bluesy and groovy. Loved it
Oct 28 2025 Author
5
classic beautiful
Oct 27 2025 Author
5
Knowing what was to come, L.A. Woman felt a lot like a swansong for The Doors. They were blacklisted from radio play, Jim had been convicted after losing his very public trial, and had cleaned up his act somewhat. His tone seemed more seemed subdued, almost as if he was preparing for his departure. Not that Jim's energy isn't present here. In the title track, during the breakdown and the gradual building back up of the song piece by piece, Jim's gravelly voice, sounding like an old delta bluesman, drives things forward with his shamanic chanting of Mr Mojo Risin' becoming one of the most iconic moments of The Doors legacy. There's a lot of wry humour here too. During the brilliant "Cars Hiss by my Window", where you'd expect a guitar solo to break, Jim instead gives us a masterful "mouth solo". In "Been Down so Long", you can feel the smirks as Morrison rasps through the lines "C'mon and set me free, Warden, Warden, Warden... C'mon and let the poor boy be". The whole album is a bluesy masterpiece, and nobody can do the blues like The Doors can. What a fitting end to their legacy to end with "Riders on the Storm". Some of the last lyrics sang by the mad poet and Lizard King: "Into this house we're born, Into this world we're thrown, Like a dog without a bone, An actor out on loan, Riders on the storm."
Oct 22 2025 Author
5
I hadn't listened to this in a while and I was so ready to hyper critical of it but it still absolutely slaps.
Oct 21 2025 Author
5
I've already listened to his album (25). One of my favorite albums of all time.
Oct 19 2025 Author
5
Es mi disco preferido de The Doors. No soy objetivo, pero poca gente ha cantado con esa crudeza en la historia.
Oct 16 2025 Author
5
Loose and jolting, psychedelic rock that rewards deep listening
Oct 15 2025 Author
5
One of the all time greats. Not fully my taste, but the songs that really hit are bangers.
Oct 12 2025 Author
5
This was one of the first CDs I bought.
Oct 10 2025 Author
5
Absolutely banger, all tracks are classics.
Oct 07 2025 Author
5
Top, Top, Top
Oct 04 2025 Author
5
Great
Sep 30 2025 Author
5
Certified classic
Sep 26 2025 Author
5
I've listened to a lot of this already, but I never sat down to listen to the whole thing, it's a whole other experience. Incredible album
Sep 23 2025 Author
5
La woo